This is The Idiot
€18
Keyword: 2015, performing art, costume, roles, Swedish performing arts
Contributors: Ulla Kassius (set and costume design), Urban Jörén (photography), Moa Möller (costume assistant)Size: 148 x 210 mm
Pages: c. 400
Format: softcover
Illustration: in colour
Language: English
Book design: Lisa Benk
Publisher: Self-published
Pub Year: 2025
Weight: 906 gr
ISBN: 9789198438444
Description
Article no.: 9789198438444
Intimate portraits and candid moments capturing the actors in the process of embodying their roles.
From the publisher:
These photographs were taken at Dramaten [The Royal Dramatic Theatre], in the theatre’s fitting room during a three-day period in September 2015. At the time we were working on Mattias Andersson’s stage adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, which was set to premiere the following month. Together with the fourteen actors, we searched for the costumes that best fitted the characters in ways that were both right for the performance and recognizable in the present.
There was a brief meeting in front of the mirror between each actor and their character. To get a better sense of how the costumes would appear on stage, we set up a grey background in the fitting room, equivalent to the one used in the scenography. In the second act there was an orange plastic floor on stage, which in some pictures is marked on the floor in the fitting room. The camera captured some of the magical moments that occur in the process of staging a play - moments that the audience rarely gets to see.
Some of these costumes were selected to be used in the final play but by no means all of them. Most of the pictures show our search for our idiot.
Participating actors: David Dencik, Alexej Manvelov, Ardalan Esmaili, Carl-Magnus Dellow, Kicki Brambeg, Ellen Jelinek, Andreas Rothlin Svensson, Marie Richardson, Tanja Lorentzon, Melinda Kinnaman, Jennie Silfverhjelm, Björn Bengtsson, Marall Nashiri, Per Mattson.
From the publisher:
These photographs were taken at Dramaten [The Royal Dramatic Theatre], in the theatre’s fitting room during a three-day period in September 2015. At the time we were working on Mattias Andersson’s stage adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, which was set to premiere the following month. Together with the fourteen actors, we searched for the costumes that best fitted the characters in ways that were both right for the performance and recognizable in the present.
There was a brief meeting in front of the mirror between each actor and their character. To get a better sense of how the costumes would appear on stage, we set up a grey background in the fitting room, equivalent to the one used in the scenography. In the second act there was an orange plastic floor on stage, which in some pictures is marked on the floor in the fitting room. The camera captured some of the magical moments that occur in the process of staging a play - moments that the audience rarely gets to see.
Some of these costumes were selected to be used in the final play but by no means all of them. Most of the pictures show our search for our idiot.
Participating actors: David Dencik, Alexej Manvelov, Ardalan Esmaili, Carl-Magnus Dellow, Kicki Brambeg, Ellen Jelinek, Andreas Rothlin Svensson, Marie Richardson, Tanja Lorentzon, Melinda Kinnaman, Jennie Silfverhjelm, Björn Bengtsson, Marall Nashiri, Per Mattson.